In 2017 Potencia began making direct investments into private companies that serve lower-income communities either through education or increasing people's prospects for meaningful employment. We invest in early stage companies in Latin America, the US, and India, either on our own or with other investors. Companies that Potencia Ventures supports include:
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Representative companies
Based in Mexico and Colombia, Kuepa offers a blended learning curriculum across a variety of subjects to improve professional and work skills. Kuepa’s offers high quality, affordable educational services that have reached over 30,000 thousand young people and facilitates their entry into the labor market or into higher education.
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Based in Brazil, Letrus develops and markets a platform that analyzes student writing samples and provides feedback to teachers and students. Letrus’s platform is helping to build critical infrastructure in education that leverages technology to improve the student and teacher experience.
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Shortlist’s platform, which analyzes an applicants' personality and skills, provides talent and recruitment services that connect job seekers in Kenya and India with job opportunities. Shortlist’s platform helps connect people with nontraditional backgrounds who may otherwise be overlooked in the recruitment process with rewarding jobs.
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MPOWER provides loans to international students in the US and Canada without credit history, co-signers, or collateral to help finance higher education expenses. By prioritizing a student's academic success and career path in underwriting over their family's financial resources, MPOWER can responsibly provide loans to students who may otherwise not be able to attend university in the US or Canada.
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TAQE is a gamified platform that empowers and recommends young people to the labor market. Through interactive classes and tests, the app creates a professional identity for the candidate and matches candidates with job opportunities with a strong culture and skill fit. Young employees begin their career journeys and build professional identities and companies improve productivity.
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4YOU2 democratizes English language learning in Brazil using a blended methodology: a modern app combined with in-person classes with foreign teachers in brick-and-mortar schools. Students experience high quality education while paying affordable prices and teachers receive a paid international experience in Brazil.
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